- From: Imagination's End <I.End@bigpic.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:58:25 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
*my contribution to the rant* The large problem with adding so many new tags and taking advantage of them is that people no longer make good web pages. Everybody just uses the tags and makes fairly plain pages. Some of the nicest looking pages on the net can still be done with HTML2.0 (some require text/table color extensions, but they are still VERY compatible then). The only useful extensions (over the past year or two) I've seen that actually can improve the appearance of a page are the Text attributes and table cell attributes, both of which are better replaced with style sheets. I think too many people want something from the web that shouldn't be there. Comments such as "I want this to look like the newspaper that I get in the morning" are very negative to the web. The web is not print medium, it's not video medium, it's not audio medium, it's a DIFFERENT medium. One should just adopt a new approach to design rather than trying to force the web into what they already know. For if we do achieve in making web pages the exact same as a magazine on the store shelf, we haven't achieved a damn thing! Great, I spent all these years learning computers, making HTML documents, learning about the web, just to produce things that have existed for many centuries already! ____ / | Imagination's End I.End@bigpic.com | Senior Software Engineer | Big Picture Multimedia
Received on Friday, 18 October 1996 17:58:18 UTC